Combined calk-plates and carrier.



G. 's. MEYER. COMBINED GALK PLATES AND CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYB, 1912.

WAN 5/[6 A WITNESSES l/WEIVTUR I s M y r- 4 4 M ATTORNEYS Patented Aug.27, 1912.

GEORGE s. MEYER, or aawaeaen, n w YORK.

COMBINED GALK-PLATES AND cAnnIER.

Application filed May a, 1912. Serial no. 695,849;

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, Gnoncn S. MEYER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident;

of Newburgh, in the county of Orange and State of New York, haveinvented new and Improved Combined Calk-Plates and Carrier, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to attachable calks and means for attaching thesame to an or dinary horse shoe.

The present invention is specially designed as an improvement on thedevice forming the subject of my patent The present invention providesmeans to resist the tendency of the calk plates and granted Februarytheir carrying frames to bend and turn sidewise under the strain ofservice.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific descriptionhereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved calk plates and theircarrying frame, showing the same applied to a hoof; Fig. 2 is afragmentary transverse section, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved calk plates.

The calk plates comprise two side or drop plates 10 curvedlongitudinally to conform in general with the sides of an ordinary shoe,such as 11, said calk plates being pro;-

vided with a longitudinal series of calks12 arms 15 are formed at thefront of the carrier frame, and shorter, inwardly curved clamp arms 16are formed on the carrier frame at the rear end of the said frame. Theupper end of one front arm 15 is formed Specification bf tame Patent.

Patented Aug. 2'7, 1912.

with an outwardly turned hook 15, which a may engage in a link 17carried by the upper end 15 of the other arm, the said link connectionhaving a length to fit the attachment to the size of the hoof. The reararms are connected by any suitable chain 18 or other connecting means. Alink 20 may connect the end 15 of one front arm with a tie strap 19extending around the hoof and in turn said strap may connect with thefastener 18 of the rear arms by a wire link 21. The elements 18 and 21form no part of the present invention. It should be explained that thecalk plates 10 are drop plates, and drop into place on the top of therespective members 13 of the carrier frame, the calks 12 droppingthrough the corresponding holes 14 in the carrier frame.

Under very severe strains of service, the carrier frame 13 and the calkplates 10 tend to turn 'sidewise away from the shoe 11, and the presentinvention provides means to resist all turning tendency of both thecarrier frame members and the call: plates. Thus, each plate 10 isprovided with an. inwardly eXtending arm 25, 26, said arms preferablycurving slightly forward and lying fiatwise,

against each other, and ranging in the horizontal plane; One of the saidarms is provided wlth a curved slot 27, and the other arm carries at itsinner end a guide stud 28 riveted or otherwise formed with an upper head29 and a lower head 30. Preferably the heads 29, 30 are produced byupsetting the ends of the stud 28 and are integral with said stud. Thepreferred form is determined by the fact that the overlapping arms '25,26, which are adjustable by reason of the slot 27 and stud 28, do notconstitute in the illustrated form a tie bar between the calk plates 10,and in any case said arms do not primarily constitute a tie between thecalk plates, their function being to resist not primarily a tensilestrain, but turning or outward bending of the calk plates and carrierframe members, and therefore they are merely adjustable brace arms. Anytendency of the said plates to turn. outward from beneath the shoe isimmediately resisted by the stud 28. and the contacting opposed faces ofthe arms 25, 26. The arrangement is such that the drop plates 10carrying the calks may swing on the stud 28, and the two brace arms mayslide relatively to each other so that the drop plates carrier framemembers could not be readily take the position according to the width ofthe shoe, and drop into place on their respective carrier frame members13.

With the described stud and slot connection between the brace arms ofthe calk plates, the side plates are adjustable without any manipulationof the brace arms and their connecting stud or equivalent device,

the adjustment being effected bytaking hold of the side plates andquickly moving themto such position as to permit their calks 12' todrop. vertically through the holes 14 of the carrier frame. It will'beobserved also that by the simple device of'the brace arms,

I provide for resisting the turning of both the calk plates and thecarrier frame members, said brace arms resisting directly the turning ofthe calk platesby reason of the direct connection therewith, andresisting very important result in that the said arms are thus removablefrom the carrier frame{ with the removal of the drop plates, and

thus the members 13 of the carrier frame may be swung outward, to turnthe hook 15 out of engagement with the link 17 in removing theattachment and in applying it, whereas, were the arms 25', 26 formed onthe carrier frame members, then obviously the so swung as to turn .thehook 15 out of the link 17. The making of the calks andthe brace arms onthe drop plates instead of on the carrier frame members also gives the,

great merit that the elements subjected to .the greatest wear, and mostliable to injury may be renewed at a trifling cost.

It is to be understood that although a plurality of calks on each calkplate 10, and a corresponding plurality of holes in the carrier frameare important in practice, the prime requisite perhaps is that but onecalk on each plate be provided, and holes to correspond in the carrier.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent: j

1. A horse shoe attachment comprising calk-bearing drop plates providedeach with a longitudinal series of calks on their under sides, anda'carrier frame consisting of side members having vertical holescorresponding in number and position with the calks, the carrier framehaving suspending arms and means for securing said arms to'a hoof,

and the calk' plates having overlapping brace arms extending inwardly,said brace arms lying flatwise against each other, one

ofthe arms carrying a stud and the other having a curved slot, the studhaving fixed heads at the top and bottom guiding the arms whilepermitting free sliding movement thereof 2. A horse shoe attachmentcomprising a carrier frame and calk-bearing plates, the carrierframecomprising two independent side members having each a longitudinalseries of vertical holes, and means for suspending said carrier framebeneath the horse shoe, the calk plates being in the form of I dropplates and adapted to lie on top of the carrier frame members, andprovided with calks adapted to drop through the holes in the carrierframe, the said calk plates being provided with inwardly extending bracearms and means for adjustably uniting said arms, the said brace armsserving to reslst turning of the calk plates and serving also to resistturning of the carrier frame members by the engagement of the calkswith-the said i adjustably uniting said arms, the brace arms serving toresist turning of the calk plates by the direct connection'therewith andserving also to resist turning of the carrier frame members through theengagement of the calks with thesaid frame member.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification "1nthe presence of two subscriblng witnesses.

V GEORGE s. MEYER.

Witnesses:

J. L. MCAULIFFE, T PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

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